The Essence of the Thing: Index
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ALPHABETICAL INDEX BY AUTHOR – click on the title to be taken to the newsletter
Anderson, Jessica, Tirra Lirra by the River (1978)
Bainbridge, Beryl, An Awfully Big Adventure (1989)
Blakemore, Michael, Next Season (1968)
Bowen, Elizabeth, The Heat of the Day (1948)
Capote, Truman, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958)
Carey, Peter, Jack Maggs (1997)
Colegate, Isabel, The Shooting Party (1980)
Comyns, Barbara, The Vet’s Daughter (1959)
Elliott, Sumner Locke, Fairyland (1990)
Elyot, Kevin, Coming Clean (1982)
–––– The Day I Stood Still (1998)
–––– Mouth to Mouth (2001)
–––– My Night with Reg (1994)
–––– On Kevin Elyot
Fitzgerald, Penelope, The Blue Flower (1995)
–––– Offshore (1979)
Frankau, Pamela, A Wreath for the Enemy (1954)
Harrower, Elizabeth, The Catherine Wheel (1960)
–––– The Watch Tower (1966)
Howard, Elizabeth Jane, After Julius (1965)
–––– The Long View (1956)
Jenkins, Elizabeth, The Tortoise and the Hare (1954)
Jolley, Elizabeth, The Well (1986)
Kureishi, Hanif, Intimacy (1999)
Lehmann, Rosamond, Dusty Answer (1927)
Lindsay, Cressida, Father’s Gone to War and Mother’s Gone to Pieces (1963)
Malouf, David, Fly Away Peter (1982)
–––– Johnno (1975)
Mortimer, Penelope, The Home (1971), The Home Part Two
Panter-Downes, Mollie, One Fine Day (1947)
Pym, Barbara, A Glass of Blessings (1958)
Rubens, Bernice, The Elected Member (1969)
Selvon, Sam, The Lonely Londoners (1956)
Sherriff, R.C., The Fortnight in September (1931)
Spark, Muriel, The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960)
St John, Madeleine, The Essence of the Thing (1997)
–––– The Women in Black (1993)
Taylor, Elizabeth, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (1971)
Weldon, Fay, Praxis (1978)
Whipple, Dorothy, Someone at a Distance (1953)
White, Patrick, The Twyborn Affair (1979)
MISCELLANEOUS – click on the link to be taken to the newsletter
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